111 Gigapixels

[swankyfella]

Ok maybe, but "thousand million" sounds retarded or like something a little kid would say when making up some really big number.

*cough* googolplex *cough*

Isn't it "googleplex" and what's your point?

It is not. "Googleplex" is the name of the Google building. And my point is that many big numbers have fairly ridiculous names.

 

[Magne Eik Lauritzen]

Gotta love the fisher in the right hand lower corner checking out his dick XD

 

[SckizoBoy]

Well I think the answer to that is pretty clear.

The level of detail in a 111 gigapixel photo.

Now don't get me wrong. The level of detail isn't extraneous. It's the amount of "Wow. That's goddam awesome" that's above what's necessary.

Yeah, I guess so, but that's life... all a matter of numbers, as people are generally impressed by the best numbers and always compare numbers, ever striving to attain better numbers... I think you know where I'm going with this.

I looked at the 80gigpix of London and that had a certain 'wow!' factor that I don't think 31billion extra would've added to.

*shrug*

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Ok maybe, but "thousand million" sounds retarded or like something a little kid would say when making up some really big number.

*cough* googolplex *cough*

Isn't it "googleplex" and what's your point?

It is not. "Googleplex" is the name of the Google building. And my point is that many big numbers have fairly ridiculous names.

Ah, but that particular number's name is not "thousand million" that number's name is "1 Billion." And while the other might be technically acceptable, nobody actually says that. ...well most people don't anyway.

 

[swankyfella]

Ok maybe, but "thousand million" sounds retarded or like something a little kid would say when making up some really big number.

*cough* googolplex *cough*

Isn't it "googleplex" and what's your point?

It is not. "Googleplex" is the name of the Google building. And my point is that many big numbers have fairly ridiculous names.

Ah, but that particular number's name is not "thousand million" that number's name is "1 Billion." And while the other might be technically acceptable, nobody actually says that. ...well most people don't anyway.

True. But, semantics: thy name is "internet."

 

[Zykon TheLich]

[quote="canadamus_

 

[swankyfella]

Yeah, I guess so, but that's life... all a matter of numbers, as people are generally impressed by the best numbers and always compare numbers, ever striving to attain better numbers... I think you know where I'm going with this.

I looked at the 80gigpix of London and that had a certain 'wow!' factor that I don't think 31billion extra would've added to.

*shrug*

Agreed. Just like the graphical capabilities of computers. At a certain point, resolution becomes so good that upgrades stop mattering.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Agreed. Just like the graphical capabilities of computers. At a certain point, resolution becomes so good that upgrades stop mattering.

That and frame rates. A lot of people... thick people, harp on about astronomical framerates... anything more than about 50Hz is meaningless.

...

However, seeing as how we've gone off-topic, thank you for playing *offers hand... reluctantly*, and I think we'll agree that the picture was awesome, but more than was necessary (that rower seemed a bit cliched to have in the panorama).

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Ah, but that particular number's name is not "thousand million" that number's name is "1 Billion." And while the other might be technically acceptable, nobody actually says that. ...well most people don't anyway.

In the US and environs maybe, but in the UK and mainland europe "thousand million" is very common. Seeing as it's a Spanish city I'd say they were very much in the right saying thousand million.

Still sounds like something a child would make up when trying to come up with a large number.
...
Whatever.

 

[Marcu5]

I pity the guy who had to do all the blurring XD

Ah, but that particular number's name is not "thousand million" that number's name is "1 Billion." And while the other might be technically acceptable, nobody actually says that. ...well most people don't anyway.

In the US and environs maybe, but in the UK "thousand million" is very common and in mainland europe it is the standard. Seeing as it's a Spanish city I'd say they were very much in the right saying thousand million.

In Germany that would be called a "Milliarde", and a german Billion would be a trillion. Imagine all the fun that creates when people try to translate those numbers XD

 

[Zykon TheLich]

[quote="canadamus_

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Still sounds like something a child would make up when trying to come up with a large number.
...
Whatever.

As opposed to 100 million? or a trillion? No difference to my ears. I might as well go around saying that Canadamus Prime sounds like the sort of name an idiot might make when trying to show his love of Transformers as a child and his nationality on a forum, or that scumofsociety was a vain attempt to show that whatever someone thinks of me I am in fact far worse.

Anyway...back to the point, you were wrong, wrong, wrong, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.

I repeat: whatever.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

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[Canadamus Prime]

I repeat: whatever.

You're crying inside, don't try and deny it.

Oh yeah, I'm all broken up about it.
/sarcasm

 

[KiKiweaky]

Lol I was well wrong when I said to my friends it was 111 megapizels haha. Friend of mine sent it to me a few days ago technology continues to amaze me. 111 gigapixels wonder how much hraddrive space a picture that detailed would take up ^_^

 

[Lilani]

And yet, all I can think of it...

[HEADING=1]GREAT SCOTT![/HEADING]

111 GIGAPIXELS!!!

 

[brunothepig]

Lol I was well wrong when I said to my friends it was 111 megapizels haha. Friend of mine sent it to me a few days ago technology continues to amaze me. 111 gigapixels wonder how much hraddrive space a picture that detailed would take up ^_^

Apparently to put it together they used a computer with "two 6-core Xeon processors, 40-gigabyte RAM and 8-terabyte HDD." I want that computer haha.
Anyway, this is amazing, and totally not what I needed to find the day before my test.

 

[Sprinal]

Awwwwww... They blured all the number plates.

O well nothings prefect I suppose.

Still Great find mate

 

[Wolfenbarg]

I'm... Unimpressed. It's not really a technological advancement of any kind and the actual photo leaves a lot to be desired. The software they used is what I could be impressed by... All this took was time. The time to take a bunch of pictures from a fixed position and stitch them all together. The result could have been breathtaking, but instead it's just a number of pixels because they wanted to break some kind or record.

Not a technological advancement? You know, a lot of the long range pictures you see of deep space that are absolutely breathtaking? They use the exact same technique as this to piece images together. Before digital photography, it was impossible, now it's such common practice that they can do it of a cityscape. That's pretty huge.

 

[thiosk]

You mean i can't zoom in on those houses and voyuer some people?

Then thats 111 too many gigapixels!